Avocados: Small or Large?

[sleddriver]

Time to crunch some numbers to see which is a better deal.

Small #1:
Total weight: 131.8g
Pit: 22.5g
Editable flesh: 90g.
Flesh ratio: 68%
Cost: $0.50 ea.
Editable flesh cost/g: 0.56 cents/g

Small #2:
Total weight: 150g
Pit: 28.4g
Editable flesh: 85g.
Flesh ratio: 57%
Cost: $0.50 ea.
Editable flesh cost/g: 0.59 cents/g

Large:
Total weight: 289.2g
Pit: 49.6g
Editable flesh: 102g
Flesh ratio: 35.3%
Cost: $1.68 ea.
Edible flesh cost/g: 1.65 cents/g

Smaller pits are better of course. Surprised the smaller ones were the better deal, at least in this case. Interesting that....

 

[Revving2Redline]

I would just buy what you need and not look at anything else.Its only a savings if you can eat them before they spoil. I buy 5 a week and throw one a day in a blender with bananas,wheatgrass,flaxseed,whey,ice,frozen fruits and frozen yogurt and the avocado makes it worth the entire deal. I'm try to grow them now lol.Got like 50 pit seeds.

 

[Rand]

1.50 each here for haas or chiquita avocados

 

[pandus13]

decisions, decisions...
of course, the ripe one!

for pit growing i suggest you watch "RED I": if Bruce Wills can do it, then you can do it for sure... i mean is not stellar travel, isn't it? -P)

 

[DBMaster]

Get the oblong shaped avocados rather than the rounder ones. They tend to have a smaller pit to flesh ratio.

 

[Lyman]

Smaller avocados seem to be better for eating. Less stringy and better tasting. I have a buddy that owns an orchard and a fat dog. The dog eats them when they fall to the ground.

 

[John_Conrad]

now that is funny..a dog that eats avocado's...i bet he is a full happy dog. i'm not sure if my dog would like avocado

i have never done a cost analysis on avocados that is very interesting. my largest challenge is always finding avocado's that are not rock hard. that having been said i usually put non ripe avocados in a bag with a banana, it ripens them up usually over night if they are not too green.

 

[sleddriver]

Here there are bins of two sizes, side-by-side: One small, the other large. Always wondered which was the better deal when stripped.